Listen to the latest THRAwardsChatter podcast with Buzz Aldrin ('Apollo 11'):
Aldrin, who was born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, is the son of a trailblazing aviator and a homemaker. He graduated from West Point, third in the class of 1951. He served as a fighter jet pilot in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, participating in 66 combat missions and destroying two enemy aircraft. And he then returned stateside and earned a doctor of science degree from M.I.T.
Armstrong's first words on the Moon are famous:"That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." Aldrin's first words are less widely remembered, but poetic in their own right — in response to Armstrong saying"Isn't that something! Magnificent sight out here," Aldrin responded,"Magnificent desolation." Aldrin now explains that he wasn't disappointed with what he found at the end of their long journey; just merely stating facts.
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